Very bad movie. It's about Ichi the Killer. But the person on the cover and who has the most camera time is actually Kakihuru.

Kakihuru is a masochist who really wants Ichi to kill him and thinks Ichi is a pure monster. Ichi is a sad, pathetic little man whom a shrink has given false memories and post-hypnotic suggestions in order to clean up the gang land part of the city.

All we know about Ichi is that he wants to know why 'Sailor' did something to him (whom Sailor is is a question that never gets answered and we never find out what he did to Ichi) and that he killed his parents which is why the shrink was brought in in the first place. We also don't know why that happened either.

Ichi ends up killing all the bad guys and all the people you actually kinda like in the movie. Including a little boy. The Shrink ends up hanging himself over the death of the boy and Ichi just walks away into the city.

Ichi kills with a 2 inch knife blade that pops out of the heals of his boots. The movie shows him beheading people and cutting people in half right up the center of the torso and head with a single kick and a blade that won't anywhere near deep enough to get the job done.

From what I'm told, this is an anime gone live action. Most anime to life is campy. It doesn't try to be anything other than what it is. As a result, it can be fun to watch some of the anime to live movies. This is not one of those.